Recent News

4/20/2017 Dr. Zhou gave a talk to students at Case Western Reserve University on energy efficient structures and materials. Thanks to the invitation of Profs. Yue Li and Xiong Yu. Click herefor more details.

4/3/2017 Together with Prof. Farbod Fahimi, our project on "pressure actuated self-adaptive building façade" was funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). Click herefor more details.

3/26-27/2017 Dr. Zhou presented at the ACI Spring Convention in Detroit, MI on the topic of "Contemporary design of building materials and structures for energy efficiency and hazard resilience".

7/3/2016 Together with Profs. Tommy Morris (PI), Rhonda Gaede, Krishnan Chittur, and Farbod Fahimi, we received an educational grant from NSF for integrating Cybersecurity into Civil Engineering research and education. Click herefor more details.

2/2/2015 Dr. Zhou and the SHM&IM team receive $181,915 research grant from FHWA/ALDOT to investigate the "Stability of horizontally curved I-girder bridges during early-state construction".

Advising & Outreach

UAH ASCE Student Chapter

The ASCE Student Chapter is deemed as one of the most active and productive student chapter in the Southeastern region. Since its first national competition in 1988, UAH Concrete Canoe Team has won five (5) national championships.

Dr. Hongyu Zhou has been serving as the faculty advisor of the UAH ASCE chapter since 2015.

Be an Engineering STudent (BEST) Summer Enrichment Camp

UAH Be an Engineering STudent (BEST) Experience Summer Camp is a week-long activity which enrolls ~40 high school students each year, and it gives high-school students a taste of what being an engineer student at UAH is all about. Students will go to engineering classes, perform hands-on experiments in engineering labs, participate in UAH student life activities, and work on project teams. For more info. visit HERE.